Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.